Compliments and respecting differences, sentence 12
Telling a cook the meal was delicious lets them know their work was enjoyed.
Who acts: meal, Telling, drawing · What happens: tell, be, let, know, enjoy, work · To what, where: cook, drawing, work · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of the lesson «Compliments and respecting differences» of the everyday course of Mova's primary school. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (meal, Telling, drawing), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.
The tree
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Telling | tell | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 8 lets | csubj |
| 2 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 3 cook | det |
| 3 | cook | cook | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Telling | iobj |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 meal | det |
| 5 | meal | meal | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 delicious | nsubj |
| 6 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 delicious | cop |
| 7 | delicious | delicious | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 1 Telling | ccomp |
| 8 | lets | let | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 9 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 8 lets | obj |
| 10 | know | know | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 8 lets | xcomp |
| 11 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 12 work | nmod:poss |
| 12 | work | work | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 enjoyed | nsubj:pass |
| 13 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 14 enjoyed | aux:pass |
| 14 | enjoyed | enjoy | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 10 know | ccomp |
| 15 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 lets | punct |
Pragmatics
- form
- statement
- act
- assert
- voice
- narrator
- polarity
- none
- teacher
- changed act=assert
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | tell speech: assert | gerund | a cook | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent cook=Recipient | |||||
| 2 | is | past | the meal | delicious property | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | let | present | Telling | drawing | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | know | infinitive | drawing not said here | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus | |||||
| 5 | enjoy | past · passive | drawing's work | vn admire-31.2 «NP V NP»: subject=Stimulus | |||||
| 6 | work | drawing | nom work «act intransitive»: poss=agent |
One row per clause the reader finds. «not said here»: a role filled from the clause above. «roles by»: a VerbNet class and frame when one fits the verb, else the reader's rules on the tree.
Licence: CC BY-SA 4.0, as the whole of Mova corpus 0.4, of which this treebank (the agreed school, mova-school-agreed-en.conllu) is part. The lessons were written for Mova's primary school. Sentence school:everyday:226-compliments-and-respecting-differences.lesson:12.
The tree: Mova annot: Rust (en) → Haiku 5.5 (medium, Batches API) patches; gates UD 2.18; agreed by treeagree rules (Stanza, Trankit, spaCy trf): no change. The frames are read from the tree by Mova's frames reader (prag) when this page is built, the lesson read in order, so a pronoun may be resolved from an earlier sentence.
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